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Proposed DACA Rule Attracts More Than 9000 Comments

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Jennifer Doherty for Law360 (registration required) reports on continuing developments in the long saga of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which was originally instituted by the Obama administration in 2012 and subject to an attempted rescission by the Trump administration in 2017 until the rescission was rejected by the Supreme Court in 2020.  The Department of Homeland Security DACA webpage, with information about the policy and its history, is here.

According to the news reports, the Biden administration’s proposed rule attracted more than 9,300 responses ahead of  yesterday’s deadline for comments.

A coalition of 24 state attorneys general led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed comments in support of DACA.  “While congressional action is needed to permanently address the treatment of individuals who arrived in the United States as children, have grown up and gone to school here, and know only the United States as home, the proposed rule is an important step to address the pressing needs of grantees, their families, their communities, and their states pending such legislation,” the attorneys general wrote.  Representing states including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., the comments touted the benefits afforded the states by DACA recipients.  A copy of the comment letter is available here.

 
Update (November 30) (2:45 P.M. PST):  The University of California, which successfully challenged the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind DACA submitted comments on the proposed DACA rule.  See here and here.
 
KJ

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